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(NoModeh) J.- M. EDWARDS.

Draft--Bin foriHor's e Oars. Nd."243,'n5. Patented June 21,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN M. EDWARDS, QFBROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

DRAFT-PIN FOR HORSE-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,115, dated June 21,1881.

Application filed April 20, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN M. EDWARDS, ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings .and State of New York, have inventedan Improvement in Safety Draft-Pins for Horse-(Jars, of which thefollowing is aspecification.

Horse-cars usually are provided with a draftpin in the bumper-block, ora hook that passes through an eye at the rear of the whiffletree,

and the horses become detached from the car,

and the strain suddenly comes on the reins, sometimes drawing the driverover the dash board. In other instances the horses run away, andaccidents occur.

My invention is for holding the draft-pin firmly into the bumper-blockby a toggle that prevents the whiffletrees becoming disconnectedaccidentally, and this toggle is near the top part of the dash-board, soas to be operated with facility in withdrawing the pin.

Y The toggle also holds the pin up out of the way while the eye is beinginserted into the bumper-block.

In the drawings, Figure lis an elevation of the bumper-block and pinwhen the latter is raised for the insertion of the eye into thebumper-block, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, with the pin forceddown to place.

The dash-rail a, dash-board 1), platform 0, and bumber-block d are allof any usual character.

e is the draft-pin, to which is hinged a link, 7, the upper end of whichis connected with (No model.)

the middle part of the handle or lever g, that is pivoted at the end 0to the dash-rail a, and forms, with the liftf, a toggle to raise orlower the draft-pin e. The end of the handle is formed as a loop, 6,with a concave or forked end, 8, to rest against the linkf. This handleportion is easily grasped in the hand and the lever turned up into theposition shown in Fi g. 1, and by dotted lines in Fig. 2, so as to drawup the draft-pin and hold it while the eye at the end of the tongue orbehind the whifiietree is passed into the mortise or jaws of thebumper-block. The draftpin is then forced down to place by swinging thelever down into position shown in Fig. 2, and the togglelever looks itsecurely, and the forked ends 8 of the lever, setting against and ateach side of the link f, prevents any lateral motion to thetoggle-lever.

The driver can operate this draft-pin by the lever without having toreach down in front of the dash-board.

When the toggle'lever is turned down to hold the pin it is impossible tomove said pin upwardly by any other force than that of the toggle-lever.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination, with the bumper-block anddraft-pin, of the linkf, hinged to the draftpin, the toggle-levergpivoted at one end and hinged to the link f, and having a handle orloop, 2', substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The combination, with the draft-pin and bumper-block, of a link andlever forming a toggle for holding the pin in place or withdrawing thesame, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 14th day of April, A. D. 1881..

JOHN M. EDWARDS. Witnesses:

Gem. '1. PrNcKNEY, WILLIAM G. Moran

